Watercolor Unleashed: Paint a Mountain Stream
Watercolor
All Levels
Dates: July 27 – 30, 2027 (4 days)
Cost: $575
Paint splashing, cascading water with foliage and wildflowers decorating the banks. With a stunning water cascade as your model, learn how to solve the various puzzles with which the artist is faced when painting this stunning, fascinating, and challenging subject!
Presentation and study to include:
- Basic “anatomy” of a water cascade…
- Learn to paint rocks that look solid and hard…
- Paint splashy wildflowers growing along the stream…
- The painting process – keeping it manageable…
- Watercolor methods and techniques that apply to the subject-matter…
- Negative painting lessons for watercolor…
- Creative use of color – color mixing – painting with green – “using color as value” (as seen in her North Light books and videos)
- Aiming for a plein air “feel” and sensitivity in your painting when working from photos …
There will be demos, instruction at all levels, critique and lots of painting time. Class time will be structured, yet open enough to accommodate the artistic spirit within us all. All levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. The only prerequisite is an attitude of joy in the act of painting!
About the Instructor: Julie Gilbert Pollard’s watercolors and oils reflect a fluid, painterly view of the world, colored with her own personal concept of reality.
Author/artist of three North Light Books — Discover Oil Painting and Watercolor Unleashed are the latest —and numerous other publications — including nine videos, and several articles in Plein Air Magazine, Splash 18 & 23, Watercolor Artist Magazine, The Art of Watercolour Magazine, Acrylic Works 3 & 13, and others — she has given instruction in watercolor and oil since 1985 in numerous venues.
Pollard holds signature membership in National Oil & Acrylic Painters’ Society, Arizona Watercolor Association, Arizona Plein Air Painters, and San Diego Watercolor Society.
Her work is currently represented in Arizona by Raku Gallery in Jerome.
Learn more about Julie at her website: JulieGilbertPollard.com.
07/27/2027 – 07/30/2027